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The Collinses also developed a system to track their family's future progress called The Index. "We record how your kids do emotionally, how your kids do in terms of their career, and do your kids stay within the culture they were raised with," Malcolm explained. He said he looked forward to watching his own children disagree with his parenting paradigm and expected them to be competitive enough to come up with their own. Then, 11 generations down the line, when the extended Collins family is the Earth's (or Mars') dominant culture, they'll have hundreds of years' worth of data to look back on and learn from.

The Collinses also developed a system to track their family's future progress called The Index. "We record how your kids do emotionally, how your kids do in terms of their career, and do your kids stay within the culture they were raised with," Malcolm explained. He said he looked forward to watching his own children disagree with his parenting paradigm and expected them to be competitive enough to come up with their own. Then, 11 generations down the line, when the extended Collins family is the Earth's (or Mars') dominant culture, they'll have hundreds of years' worth of data to look back on and learn from.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a non-paywalled version or can at least copy a few of the funniest quotes?

Genomic Prediction is one of the first companies to offer PGT-P, a controversial new type of genetic testing that allows parents who are undergoing in vitro fertilization to select the "best" available embryos based on a variety of polygenic risk factors.

The Collinses became the public face of the technology after being featured in a May Bloomberg article, "The Pandora's Box of Embryo Testing Is Officially Open." After the piece went live, Malcolm said, they began hearing from wealthy pronatalists around the country.

"We are the Underground Railroad of 'Gattaca' babies and people who want to do genetic stuff with their kids," Malcolm told me.

Along with his 3-year-old brother, Octavian, and his newborn sister, Titan Invictus, Torsten has unwittingly joined an audacious experiment. According to his parents' calculations, as long as each of their descendants can commit to having at least eight children for just 11 generations, the Collins bloodline will eventually outnumber the current human population.

Their wardrobes, Simone told me later, are meticulously curated to project the kind of gravitas their work requires. Beneath their thick, black-rimmed glasses — hers round, his rectangular — the couple look, as they would put it, "biologically young."